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MILITARY PERSONNEL

William Halsey Jr.

1882 - 1959

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William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. (October 30, 1882 – August 16, 1959) was an American Navy admiral during World War II. He is one of four officers to have attained the rank of five-star fleet admiral of the United States Navy, the others being William Leahy, Ernest King, and Chester W. Nimitz. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Halsey graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1904. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Halsey Jr. has received more than 2,463,481 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. William Halsey Jr. is the 691st most popular military personnel (up from 752nd in 2019), the 2,082nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,354th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, William Halsey Jr. ranks 691 out of 1,468Before him are P. G. T. Beauregard, Oswald Boelcke, Walther Nehring, Adolf Heusinger, Markian Popov, and Vasily Petrov. After him are Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Abner Doubleday, Roger of Lauria, Max Immelmann, and Won Gyun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, William Halsey Jr. ranks 81Before him are Germaine Dulac, Leo Perutz, Joaquín Turina, Korney Chukovsky, Yoshijirō Umezu, and John Barrymore. After him are Ernst von Weizsäcker, Florian Znaniecki, Eugène Joseph Delporte, David Burliuk, Ladislas Starevich, and Artur Schnabel. Among people deceased in 1959, William Halsey Jr. ranks 44Before him are Carlos Saavedra Lamas, D. F. Malan, Ichirō Hatoyama, Sisavang Vong, Edmond Debeaumarché, and Jean Behra. After him are Ethel Barrymore, Zhang Jinghui, Barthélemy Boganda, Grock, Aleksandar Tsankov, and Victor McLaglen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Halsey Jr. ranks 2,082 out of 18,182Before him are Teri Hatcher (1964), Candice Bergen (1946), Tanya Roberts (1955), Harpo Marx (1888), John Derek (1926), and Lewis Hine (1874). After him are Agnes Smedley (1892), Curtis LeMay (1906), Mary McDonnell (1952), Asher Brown Durand (1796), John Young (1930), and John Bates Clark (1847).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, William Halsey Jr. ranks 31Before him are Wild Bill Hickok (1837), Matthew Ridgway (1895), Chris Kyle (1974), Mark W. Clark (1896), Charles Sweeney (1919), and P. G. T. Beauregard (1818). After him are Abner Doubleday (1819), Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Paul Revere (1735), Doc Holliday (1851), James Bowie (1796), and Henry H. Arnold (1886).